Rescuing, Interpreting, and, Eventually, Digitizing Regional Postcolonial Archives: Endangered Archives and Research in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo

Autor:	Brice I. Owabira, Alexander Keese
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Flexibility (engineering) History 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Endangered species 06 humanities and the arts Public administration Colonialism 050701 cultural studies The Republic 060104 history Work (electrical) Political science 0601 history and archaeology Digitization
Zdroj:	History in Africa. 47:143-165
ISSN:	1558-2744 0361-5413
DOI:	10.1017/hia.2020.1
Popis:	This is a study of research and conservation activities into a newly rediscovered and opened regional archive in the Préfecture of Pointe-Noire in the Republic of Congo. The study illustrates the constraints attaching to complicated post-independence materials and the need for flexibility in approaching them. Begun as an initially well-defined project targeting a vanished colonial territorial archive, the work turned instead into the finding and reorganizing of an extremely valuable but dispersed post-independence archive. The article discusses the implications of such conditions for priorities in preservation measures and questions of digitization; it makes the case for a pragmatic approach.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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